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snowfall on the citadel by kingsroad for blackvelvetcasket
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
05 Jan 2018
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The Citadel sees snowfall on two days during the year.
Once, for the humans. Once, for the asari.
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A grounded Shepard gets an unexpected visit from an old friend.
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Coping With the Harsh Reality of the Chain of Command by mankocherry
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Aug 2023
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As a young fledgling, Adrien Victus anticipated the day he'd rise up the chain of command of the turian Hierarchy. As a hardened general? Not so much.
After his cursed promotion, he finds comfort in the most unexpected ally, who shares a similar burden to his own.-
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The threat of the Reapers has been held at bay with the defeat of Saren and Sovereign. The Citadel Council has been saved, albeit at the expense of many Alliance lives. With the Normandy in dock for repairs and shore leave ordered for the whole crew, Kaidan invites Allison Shepard to join him on his planned shore leave to Casablanca and Vancouver.
What starts off as fun and responsibility-free time together begins to unwind as the dreams Allison has been having since Eden Prime resurface with more frightening visuals. And when news of Terra Nova under threat from batarian terrorists filters through, Kaidan begins to see a side of Allison he'd never suspected would exist.
Aegri Somnia - literal translation 'A Sick Man's Dreams', taken from Ars Poetica by Horace.
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Garrus Vakarian isn’t attracted to humans, but step by step, bit by bit, he comes to care for one human in particular, until in the moment from one breath to the next he realizes he’s in deeper than he’d ever thought possible.
Which makes the betrayal all the more painful.
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once upon a time, the planets and the fates and all the stars aligned (checkmate) by Supernova_Sage
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
10 Apr 2024
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She reaches for her braid to play with it. A nervous habit she’s never quite been able to quit. The turian reaches at the same time, though, and their hands meet. The moment she feels his calloused fingers brush against hers, she knows it’s over. She knows she needs to leave with him. She needs to know how the rest of him feels.
The dilated look in his eyes reflects her own musings.
“Ditch your friends,” she says, voice low.
Novella is walking away before the turian even has a chance to react. If he hadn’t intended for the conversation to go in this direction, then she doesn’t want to be facing him for the rejection. She’d rather wait and realise on her own that he won’t be meeting her. She puts some distance between her and the bar. Tries not to pay attention to just how long she’s been waiting.
Soon enough, there’s a three-fingered hand on her shoulder, heavy and warm. She turns to see that piercing blue gaze set on her. His mandibles are fluttering again. “Your place or mine?”
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AKA, a minor retelling of the series based on if Shepard and Garrus had met years before the Saren mission and how their relationship progresses over time
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Absolutely loved this amazing smutty story with Garrus and Shepard slowly falling in love
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When childhood friends Silvia Shepard and Jeff "Joker" Moreau reunite after almost twenty years worth of extranet letters and video calls, life and its wonders (also known as the Geth and the ever-so-enigmatic Reaper war threat) just naturally get in the way. Each hectic mission and even more odder nightmare-dreamish beacon visions bring them closer together, with unresolved feelings only deepening and becoming more than platonic along the way.
But Joker knows the Alliance and their rules about fraternization. Should they choose to put their hearts above duty and act on those feelings publicly, they could risk getting both being demoted and transferred to other vessels.
But...should they both not get caught…
They might just get away with it.
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It's easy to hate... Easy to be angry... But its harder to forgive and redeem. Sometimes when you're fighting the enemy, you might end up falling in love with them.
Aura Shepard has had a rough life to begin with. Lived on the streets, forced to run in a gang to survive. She joined the Alliance military to try and have a fresh start but after Akuze, her heart became eclipsed. Now with a rising darkness threatening to destroy the galaxy, she must find strength in those around her. But just as those she trusts once saved her, helped her to forgive, Aura tries to do the same for a certain rogue who's lost his way just like she had. But can she redeem the Reapers' puppet? Can he be saved?
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- Part 1 of Light Within Darkness
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He Wouldn't Hurt Her (Much) by Distressed_Authoress
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Nov 2025
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“I'm not sure if I find him scary or sexy.”
“A lot of women like bad boys.”
“A lot of women... like you?”A human commander brought back from the dead. A drell assassin who considers himself dead. When the two cross paths, things change between them, feelings get complicated and become powerful. Tensions start to rise and half truths are told. No tactic he knows is off the table for her heart.
A plan set, a target to capture, a lover to claim. That is his goal before the end of this mission. And he will do anything to succeed.
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This is a (some could say partially, others could say fully) darker interpretation of the canon romance, though it does stick to canon, many scenes are expanded upon (a few are rewritten either because they don't seem right in canon, or I needed to find a way to fit them) and new ones are made to fully make this story. Characterization of Thane on the other hand, that's ambiguous if you want to consider it canon compliant. Personally I do.
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- Part 1 of An Ardent Assassin's Alarming Attraction
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Where Hope Is Left So Incomplete by lottielovebuzz
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 Nov 2025
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Nina Shepard has been through a lot in her life. Raised on the streets on Earth, joining the Alliance at 18, fighting to protect Elysium when she had been there on shore leave, N7 training. She does it with a brave face for it has always been her dream to rise in the ranks of the Alliance, but when she's called on a mission at Eden Prime, she finds that things are going to get a whole lot more complicated than she always thought.
First in series of novelisations that'll go through all three games and beyond, focusing on the Fem!Shepard/Garrus Vakarian romance
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- Part 1 of Blood On Your Lies
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Goose Bumps 2.0 by LarasLandlockedBlues
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Oct 2025
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Rewrite of the existing and finished Goose Bumps, Part 1 of this series.
Fiona Shepard woke up on a Cerberus operating table, apparently after being dead for two years. She wants nothing more than to see a familiar face, someone who will have her back as she works with her former enemies and tries to save the galaxy. Again.
And then after one trip to Omega, she's reunited with her best friend in the galaxy.
But he looks at her differently, now - and she can't seem to shake this new feeling. Especially once she realizes it's not really a new feeling.
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- Part 3 of Stress Relief
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Guess Who's Back by DupreeWolf
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
31 Oct 2018
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The Commander just can't stay dead, can he?
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To Explore New Worlds by drladybird
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
24 Nov 2019
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Shepard never asked to be a Spectre or a diplomat. But if that's the best way to protect humanity, she'll do her duty.
She certainly didn't sign up for celebrity. But if her celebrity duties are listening to flattery and cuddling baby turians, that's easy. Adult turians are terrifying - who'd have thought the babies were so tiny and adorable?
Kid, please stop hiding in my cleavage. Please go back to your daddy. Or I’ll have to undress in public to return you. Please?-
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HILARIOUS and WONDERFULLY SCI-FI and SO GOOD.
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after the fire, new maps are drawn by full_ofstarlight
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
07 Nov 2021
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“It’s not fair —" Shepard's voice cracks and she turns her head even more so all Garrus can see is the side of her cheek and the sharp curve of her nose. “I should’ve died all those times ago, but I’m still here and so many others are gone, and that’s not fair —"
“Can’t you accept that maybe, just maybe you deserve to live?”
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or, against all odds Nyx Shepard survives the blast from the Crucible and must decide what that meansor, the Normandy crew picks up the pieces shattered by the Reaper war
or, yet another Mass Effect 3 fixit fic
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- Part 2 of i have loved the stars too fondly
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Stress Relief by LarasLandlockedBlues
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
17 Oct 2025
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A canon-glossing series chronicling the deep friendship charged with sexual tension that turns into the beautiful relationship that is Shakarian.
Begins with ME2 in Goose Bumps and continues with ME3 in Ride or Die.
Lots of smut, a few dashes of angst, and some well deserved fluff accompany this series as the pair stand together to save the galaxy one (or two or three) more times.
Edited and updated April 2020: Rewrites of Goose Bumps and Ride or Die being added as they are revised. Old version will remain up, but will not be continued as is.
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The crew of the Normandy attends a military funeral. Set shortly after the Collector attack over Alchera on May 29, 2183, that claimed the lives of 20 crewmembers of the SSV Normandy SR-1, including Commander Sybilla Reem Shepard. Told from six separate perspectives.
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- Part 7 of I Was Lost Without You
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at the end of the day by KmacKatie (kmackatie)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Oct 2025
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E. Shepard: EDI, create new message.
EDI: Commander Shepard, new message created. Who are you sending it to?
E. Shepard: Kaidan—Commander Alenko, Alliance Military.
EDI: Recipient added. Awaiting recording.
E.Shepard: Start message.
Kaidan, I—
I’m alive. It’s… complicated.
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A series of messages, log recordings, and personal musings fitting into and around the ME2 canon.
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- Part 1 of Commander Evy Shepard
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Dirt Girl Star Girl by drladybird for Forlorn_Melody
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types
15 Mar 2020
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Ash Williams is only on the Normandy because Jenkins died. It's sheer chance that she wound up fighting beside the Hero of Elysium, but she'll try to be worthy.
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The Justicar's Pursuit by SurfingtheMysteriesofLife
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
24 Nov 2024
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When Shepard gets sewn up by Dr. Chakwas after a mission, Karin pry's into Shepard's love life. The good Doctor gives Shepard advice about the other older woman on the Normandy. But Shepard doesn't believe her, opting to bury herself in paperwork to forget the pain. What happens when the Justicar herself shows up unannounced to Shepard's cabin late at night?
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Comparative Anatomy by girafficparka
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Garrus - Fandom
08 Sep 2023
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What exactly was the “research” Garrus did to prepare for Shepard…
Mid-Mass Effect 2 fanfiction focusing on Garrus and Female Shepard's relationship and what their squadmates think about the situation. I wrote this to scratch the itch of "no one has any comment on this turian-human situation? Really?"
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